Thaksin Shinawatra, father of new Thai prime minister, supports casino

Thaksin Shinawatra, a former Thai prime minister and businessman who is the father of the country’s next prime minister, Pithongtan Shinawatra, said he supports policies to legalize casino resort businesses in Thailand. Thaksin’s comments came during a speech on Thursday on Thailand’s desirable economic reforms.

His daughter, Ms Shinawatra, was elected prime minister two days after Thailand’s Constitutional Court appointed Sretta Tabithin, a former lawyer sentenced to prison, to his cabinet and removed him.

Bloomberg said in a meeting report attended by Mr. Shinawatra on Thursday that he also supports legalizing casinos because legalizing them as part of a large government-proposed entertainment complex could lead to investments of about 100 billion THB ($2.9 billion) in at least one facility in Bangkok and about 50 billion THB each in such complexes set up in Thailand’s provinces.

Mr. Shinawatra’s comments came at a gathering of 1,400 bankers, business executives and politicians in Bangkok.

He said the country needed to focus on policies that could address high levels of household and public debt and help economic growth align with some Southeast Asian neighbors.

The Bangkok Post quoted Chinawat as saying finance and other ministries should take the initiative to address the chronic debt burden.

The former prime minister said the government was considering spending 145 billion TAB in its 2024 fiscal budget to provide handouts to 14.5 million people in September, with additional spending beginning in October. 안전 슬롯사이트

Shinawatra, who served as Thailand’s prime minister from 2001 until he was ousted in a military coup in 2006, was granted a pardon by the country’s king last week.

He left Thailand in 2008 after spending 15 years based in Dubai. Mr. Shinawatra returned to Thailand in August last year, and was arrested by the Supreme Court on graft and abuse of power and sentenced to eight years in prison.